Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CLUB'-FIST, n.

A large heavy fist.

CLUB'-FIST-ED, a.

Having a large fist. – Howell.

CLUB'-FOOT-ED, a.

Having short or crooked feet.

CLUB'-HEAD-ED, a.

Having a thick head. – Derham.

CLUB'-LAW, n.

Government by clubs, or violence; the use of arms, or force, in place of law; anarchy. – Addison.

CLUB'-ROOM, n.

The apartment in which a club meets. – Addison.

CLUB'-RUSH, n.

A genus of plants, the Scirpus. – Muhlenberg.

CLUB'-SHAP-ED, a.

Shaped like a club; growing thicker toward the top; clavated. – Martyn.

CLUCK, v.i. [Sax. cloccan; Dan. klukker; Sw. klycka; G. glucken; D. klokken; W. clwcian, clocian; Arm. clochat; L. glocio; It. chiocciare; Sp. clocar, cloquear; Ch. גלג. Class Lg. No. 27. See Clack and Clock. The Gr. κλωζω seems to be the same word, as it gives κλωγμος; the guttural passing into ζ, as in many Greek verbs; and hence Fr. glousser. See Brace.]

To make the noise, or utter the voice of the domestic hen, when sitting on eggs for hatching, and when conducting her chickens. This voice, with the change of the vowel, is precisely our word clack and clock, and is probably an onomatopy. [See Clack and Clock.]

CLUCK, v.t.

To call chickens by a particular sound. – Shak.

CLUCK'ING, ppr.

Uttering the voice of a sitting hen; calling chickens.

CLUE, n. [or v.]

See CLEW.

CLUMP, n. [G. klump; D. klomp; Sw. klimp; Dan. klump, a lump; W. clamp. It is lump with a prefix. It coincides with plump, and L. plumbum, lead; as the D. lood, G. loth, Dan. lod, Eng. lead, coincide with clod. It signifies a mass or collection. If m is the final radical, see Class Lm, No. 1, 4, 5, 9. L. glomus.]

1. A thick, short piece of wood, or other solid substance; a shapeless mass. Hence clumper, a clot or clod.
2. A cluster of trees or shrubs; formerly written plump. In some parts of England, it is an adjective signifying lazy, unhandy. – Bailey.

CLUMPS, n. [from clump.]

A stupid fellow; a numskull. – Bailey.

CLUM'SI-LY, adv. [from clumsy.]

In a clumsy manner; awkwardly; in an unhandy manner; without readiness, dexterity or grace.

CLUM'SI-NESS, n.

The quality of being short and thick, and moving heavily; awkwardness; unhandiness; ungainliness; want of readiness, nimbleness or dexterity. – Collier.

CLUM'SY, a. [s as z. from clump, lump.]

1. Properly, short and thick, like a clump or lump. Hence,
2. Moving heavily, slowly or awkwardly; as clumsy fingers.
3. Awkward; ungainly; unhandy; artless; without readiness, dexterity or grace; as, a clumsy man; a clumsy fellow.
4. Ill-made; badly constructed; as, a clumsy garment; clumsy verse.

CLUNCH, n.

Among miners, indurated clay, found in coal pits next to the coal. – Kirwan. Bailey.

CLUNG, v. [pret. and pp. of Cling, – which see.]

CLUNG, v.i.

To shrink. [Not used.] See Cling.

CLU'NI-AC, n.

One of a reformed order of Benedictine monks, so called from Cluni in Burgundy.

CLUS'TER, n. [Sax. cluster. It seems to be from the root of close, L. clausus, claustrum, claudo, a collecting or crowding together; Sw. klasa, a cluster of grapes; Dan. klase. The latter in orthography coincide nearly with class. In Welsh, clws is compact, neat; clysa, to make compact; clwys is a close.]

1. A bunch; a number of things of the same kind growing or joined together; a knot; as, a cluster of raisins.
2. A number of individuals or things collected or gathered into a close body; as, a cluster of bees; a cluster of people. – Milton. Dryden.
3. A number of things situated near each other; as, a cluster of governments in Italy. – J. Adams.

CLUS'TER, v.i.

1. To grow in clusters; to gather or unite in a bunch, or bunches; as, clustering grapes. – Milton.
2. To form into flakes; as, clustering snow. – Thomson.
3. To collect into flocks or crowds.

CLUS'TER, v.t.

To collect into a bunch or close body.

CLUS'TER-ED, pp.

Collected into a cluster, or crowd; crowded.